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| Prologue: The Wizard and the Lizard | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Game Theory | |
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| Kurt Godel | |
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| Adolf Hitler | |
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| Albert Einstein | |
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| Oskar Morgenstern | |
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| Bambi | |
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| the U.S. Constitution | |
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| Joseph Goebbels | |
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| God | |
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| Kaiser Wilhelm II | |
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| John von Neumann | |
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| Kenneth Arrow | |
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| Marxism | |
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| Alfred Tarski | |
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| intransitivity | |
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| Harold Hotelling | |
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| ice cream | |
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| John Hicks | |
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| "Scissors, Paper, Stone" | |
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| Duncan Black | |
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| the "forty-seven-year-old wife of a machinist living in Dayton, Ohio" | |
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| the RAND Corporation | |
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| Condoleezza Rice | |
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| Olaf Helmer | |
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| Harry Truman | |
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| Joseph Stalin | |
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| Abram Bergson | |
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| The Big Bang | |
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| Michelle Kwan | |
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| the Great Flip-Flop | |
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| Republicans | |
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| Democrats | |
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| Communists | |
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| Sidney Morgenbesser | |
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| irrelevant alternatives | |
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| Michelangelo | |
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| Joe McCarthy | |
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| Winston Churchill | |
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| Woodrow Wilson | |
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| Boss Tweed | |
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| Amartya Sen | |
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| A Short History of Vote Splitting | |
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| Spoilers | |
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| the electoral college | |
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| James Polk | |
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| Henry Clay | |
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| James Birney | |
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| cholera | |
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| Zachary Taylor | |
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| Martin Van Buren | |
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| Lewis Cass | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | |
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| Stephen Douglas | |
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| John Breckinridge | |
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| John Bell | |
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| James Blaine | |
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| moral values | |
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| temperate Republican women | |
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| Grover Cleveland | |
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| John St. John | |
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| Benjamin Harrison | |
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| James Weaver | |
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| J. P. Morgan | |
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| Henry Clay Frick | |
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| Teddy Roosevelt | |
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| William Howard Taft | |
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| Woodrow Wilson | |
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| Eugene Debs | |
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| socialism | |
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| Wall Street | |
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| Ross Perot | |
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| Larry King | |
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| nude photos | |
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| George H. W. Bush | |
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| Bill Clinton | |
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| Bob Dole | |
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| POWs | |
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| Vietnamese | |
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| Black Panthers | |
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| Ed Rollins | |
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| FDR | |
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| Harry Levine | |
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| Ralph Nader | |
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| Hiroshima | |
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| Al Gore | |
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| Lewis Carroll | |
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| Tweedledee | |
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| Tweedledum | |
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| George W. Bush | |
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| Michael Moore | |
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| John McCain | |
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| Karl Rove | |
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| Mother Teresa | |
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| universal negatives | |
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| Tarek Milleron | |
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| Cadillac tail fins | |
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| George McGovern | |
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| Gore Vidal | |
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| Ronald Reagan | |
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| the fifty-five-mile-an-hour speed limit | |
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| Mother Jones | |
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| James Carville | |
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| "That Bastard" | |
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| the devil | |
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| Pat Buchanan | |
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| Harry Browne | |
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| Harry Reid | |
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| defective consumer products | |
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| The Most Evil Man in America | |
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| Marcus Hanna | |
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| William McKinley | |
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| Yiddish | |
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| JFK | |
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| Richard Nixon | |
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| Joseph Napolitan | |
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| Lee Atwater | |
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| cannibalism | |
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| ladies' corsets | |
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| Martin Van Buren | |
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| the ten commandments | |
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| syphilis | |
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| slavery | |
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| mother murder | |
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| Lyndon Johnson | |
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| farm animals | |
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| television | |
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| Rush Limbaugh | |
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| Arthur Finkelstein | |
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| the $12 Man | |
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| Jesus | |
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| Jews | |
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| push-polling | |
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| electroshock | |
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| NAACP | |
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| George W. Bush | |
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| Jeb Bush | |
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| Michael Dukakis | |
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| Babe Ruth | |
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| Willie Horton | |
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| Al Gore | |
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| Susan Estrich | |
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| Mario Cuomo | |
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| heroin dealers | |
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| Jennifer Fitzgerald | |
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| lithesome Republican women | |
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| David Duke | |
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| death | |
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| apologies | |
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| peace | |
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| love | |
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| brotherhood | |
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| the extra-chromosome crowd | |
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| thinking outside the box | |
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| Run, Ralph, Run! | |
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| Karl Rove | |
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| the "Red Special" | |
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| Samuel Gompers | |
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| Greens | |
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| the Texas "six-pack" | |
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| Arno Political Consultants | |
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| Wal-Mart | |
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| JSM | |
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| Sproul and Associates | |
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| the Las Vegas FBI office | |
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| the Oregon Family Council | |
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| Ayn Rand | |
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| lie detectors | |
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| Captain America | |
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| the "Ten Commandments Judge" | |
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| the National Guard | |
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| Harold See | |
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| black holes | |
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| three men and a horse | |
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| Barbra Streisand | |
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| Bob Shrum | |
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| Year of the Spoiler | |
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| Randy "Duke" Cunningham | |
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| Brian Bilbray | |
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| Francine Busby | |
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| Tijuana sewage | |
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| William Griffith | |
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| mysterious phone calls | |
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| feminazi educrats | |
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| Tim Kaine | |
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| Jerry Kilgore | |
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| Rick Santorum | |
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| weapons of mass destruction | |
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| Bob Casey, Jr. | |
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| a Republican in a duck suit | |
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| Carl Romanelli | |
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| antimatter | |
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| eye gouging | |
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| nonviolence | |
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| insane Democrats | |
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| Randy Graf | |
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| "Gabby" Giffords | |
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| Ken Mehlman | |
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| idiots | |
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| Rick Perry | |
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| Chris Bell | |
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| Carole Strayhorn | |
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| Kinky Friedman | |
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| J. Edgar Hoover | |
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| Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | |
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| trial lawyers | |
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| Ted Kulongoski | |
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| Ron Saxton | |
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| Mary Starrett | |
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| Tweedledee, Tweedledum | |
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| pennies from heaven | |
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| The Solution | |
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| Trouble in Kiribati | |
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| Benjamin Franklin | |
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| the Marquis de Condorcet | |
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| Thomas Paine | |
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| Thomas Jefferson | |
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| Louis XVI | |
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| Marie Antoinette | |
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| Robespierre | |
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| omelets | |
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| irony | |
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| Jean-Charles de Borda | |
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| the metric system | |
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| Brokeback Mountain | |
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| the most repulsive book ever written in the French language | |
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| the Marquis de Laplace | |
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| "honest men" | |
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| corrupt sportswriters | |
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| arrogant pushy scientists | |
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| Catalonian mysticism | |
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| sinners and infidels | |
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| the most perfect voting method | |
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| Kiribati | |
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| James Madison | |
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| Napoleon Bonaparte | |
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| The New Belfry | |
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| Charles Dodgson | |
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| thrift | |
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| stuttering | |
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| Henry George Liddell | |
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| bad architecture | |
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| blogging | |
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| committee voting | |
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| extraordinary injustice | |
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| uncut pages | |
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| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | |
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| barking up the wrong Tumtum tree | |
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| unanswered prayers | |
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| paradoxes | |
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| dodos | |
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| a trick picture | |
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| Instant Runoff | |
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| Edward Gorey | |
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| the Good Samaritan | |
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| William Robert Ware | |
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| sermons | |
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| MIT | |
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| John Stuart Mill | |
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| the moral condition of the working classes | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville | |
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| proportional representation | |
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| Thomas Hare | |
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| Carl George Andrae | |
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| Lord Salisbury | |
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| H. G. Wells | |
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| instant-runoff voting | |
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| one-stop shopping | |
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| the winner-turns-loser paradox | |
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| Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Cycle? | |
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| Robert Todd Lincoln | |
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| the executive branch's Angel of Death | |
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| Pullman porters | |
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| Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. | |
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| James Garfield | |
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| Tammany Hall | |
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| "the most un-American, most diabolical system ever devised" | |
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| Mussolini | |
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| Duverger's law | |
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| Ilona Staller's left breast | |
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| Bimini | |
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| Dodgson's rule | |
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| Dick Morris | |
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| Bob Dole | |
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| Newt Gingrich | |
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| Jerry Falwell | |
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| Lucifer | |
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| William H. Riker | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education | |
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| Harry Truman | |
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| Republican flip-floppers | |
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| the Joseph McCarthy of Condorcet cycles | |
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| liberalism | |
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| Wilmot Proviso | |
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| the Journal of Theoretical Politics | |
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| Scott L. Feld | |
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| Bernard Grofman | |
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| Allan Gibbard | |
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| Mark Satterthwaite | |
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| Amartya Sen | |
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| con games | |
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| Buckley and the Clones | |
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| Steven Brams | |
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| George Boehm | |
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| George and Ira Gershwin | |
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| negative voting | |
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| Robert J. Weber | |
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| Nelson Rockefeller | |
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| Charles Goodell | |
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| William F. Buckley, Jr. | |
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| James Buckley | |
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| Richard Ottinger | |
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| clones | |
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| dummies | |
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| Spiro Agnew | |
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| Richard Nixon | |
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| Ithaca | |
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| game theory | |
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| approval voting | |
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| John Kellett | |
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| Kenneth Mott | |
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| Richard A. Morin | |
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| Guy Ottewell | |
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| good guys | |
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| bad guys | |
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| Nobel prizes | |
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| the Serene Republic of Venice | |
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| popes | |
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| the Soviet Union | |
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| the United Nations | |
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| Good Morning America | |
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| the most dangerous system ever invented | |
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| Bad Santa | |
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| Donald Saari | |
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| Kris Kringle | |
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| the n-body problem | |
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| rigged elections | |
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| Peter Fishburn | |
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| Samuel Merrill III | |
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| Jill Van Newenhizen | |
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| indeterminacy | |
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| rebuttals and counter-rebuttals | |
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| Unsophisticated Voter System | |
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| unmitigated evil | |
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| symmetry | |
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| polyhedra | |
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| behavioral assumptions I find to be very dangerous | |
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| Mr. Mediocre | |
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| Thomas Edison | |
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| electrocuted dogs | |
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| "President Perot" | |
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| Alexander Tabarrok | |
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| "Buddy" Roemer | |
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| how to buy kitchen cabinets | |
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| "wherever you go, there you are" | |
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| polls | |
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| chameleon on a mirror | |
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| bandwagon effect | |
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| Jesse Ventura | |
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| Roger B. Myerson | |
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| John Nash | |
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| self-interest | |
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| bullet voting | |
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| Terry Sanford | |
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| air bags | |
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| Burr's dilemma | |
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| Last Man Standing | |
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| Orange County | |
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| John Wayne | |
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| American machismo | |
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| the Condorcet winner | |
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| Linux | |
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| Markus Schulze | |
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| CSSD | |
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| Wikipedia | |
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| trolls | |
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| Queen Elizabeth | |
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| Kim Jong Il | |
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| sarcasm | |
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| simplicity | |
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| Ka-Ping Yee | |
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| Microsoft Windows | |
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| manipulative behavior | |
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| how to prevent carjacking | |
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| Mathematics Awareness Week | |
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| Iain McLean | |
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| permanent pointlessness | |
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| Hot or Not? | |
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| Hanging out | |
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| James Hong | |
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| Jim Young | |
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| gene survival | |
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| speed dating | |
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| Silicon Valley | |
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| Slashdot | |
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| Playboy | |
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| Michelin ratings | |
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| range voting | |
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| the Internet Movie Database | |
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| The Seventh Seal | |
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| Jennifer Aniston | |
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| cheating | |
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| Warren D. Smith | |
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| Bayesian regret | |
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| ignorance | |
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| honesty | |
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| guilt | |
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| quasi-spiritual acts | |
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| honeybees | |
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| Jan Kok | |
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| number phobia | |
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| pop culture | |
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| Present but Not Voting | |
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| This Is Spinal Tap | |
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| Jeremy Bentham | |
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| faulty embalming | |
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| Lionel Robbins | |
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| eBay | |
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| Claude Hillinger | |
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| socialism | |
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| John Harsanyi | |
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| fiddling while Rome burns | |
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| what the impossibility theorem really means | |
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| The Reality | |
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| The Way Democracy Will Be | |
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| Unhappiness | |
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| the Center for Voting and Democracy | |
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| Rob Richie | |
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| George Hallett | |
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| Cynthia Terrell | |
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| Cincinnati | |
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| John Anderson | |
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| Lani Guinier | |
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| cumulative voting | |
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| David Gergen | |
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| George Soros | |
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| the Muppets | |
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| alienation | |
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| Howard Dean | |
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| Barack Obama | |
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| USA Today | |
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| the Sierra Club | |
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| spirochetes | |
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| penicillin | |
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| Jesse Jackson, Jr. | |
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| the Prius of voting systems | |
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| heretics | |
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| zealots | |
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| a one-word answer no one understands | |
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| regret in Peru | |
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| a car with Kennedy and Nixon bumper stickers | |
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| minimal coalitions | |
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| third parties | |
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| nursery effect | |
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| moderates | |
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| the universal political fantasy | |
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| a mission from God | |
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| Blue Man Coup | |
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| Karma | |
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| George Allen | |
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| YouTube | |
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| Glenda Parker's vacation money | |
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| the Blue Man from Bozeman | |
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| Y2K | |
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| the Heimlich maneuver | |
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| Smurfs | |
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| little microchips inserted in our brains | |
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| conspiracy theories | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Addresses | |
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| Notes | |
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| Sources | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |